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women in Persia and China, 530, &c.

From the Spectator's

clergyman, being a thought in sickness, 537, &c.

Libels, a severe law against them, 432. Those that write or read
them, excommunicated, 433.

Liberty of the people, when best preserved, 236.

Life, the present, a state of probation, 31. We are in this life no-
thing more than passengers, illustrated by a story of a travel-
ling Dervise, 244. The three important articles of it, 271.
Light and colours, only ideas in the mind, 365.

Livy, in what he excels all other historians, 351, 391.
Logic of Kings, what, 35..

London, the difference of the manners and politics of one part
from the other, 340, &c.

London, Mr. the gardener, an heroic poet, 484.

Longinus, an observation of that critic, 171.

Love, the mother of poetry, 308. The capriciousness of it, 476.
Lover's leap, where situated, 2. An effectual cure for love, 10,

21.

Lying, the malignity of it, 527, &c. Party-lying, the prevalency
of it, ibid.

M.

Man, the merriest species of the creation, 52.
What he is, con-
sidered in himself, 415. The homage he owes his creator,
ibid. By what chiefly distinguished from all other creatures,
511. He suffers more from imaginary than real evils, 523.
Marriages, the most happy that are preceded by a long courtship,

80.

Married preferable to a single state, 519. Termed purgatory, by
Tom Dapperwit, 490..

Martial, his epigram on a grave man's being at a lewd play, 423.
Matter, the least particle of it contains an inexhausted fund, 392.
Memory, how improved by the ideas of the imagination, 379.
Merit, no judgment to be formed of it from success, 246.
Metamorphoses, Ovid's, like enchanted ground, 382.
Metaphor, when noble, casts a glory round it, 395.

Method, the want of it, in whom only supportable, 479. The
use and necessity of it in writings, 480. Seldom found in
coffee-house debates, ibid.

Milton's Paradise Lost, the Spectator's criticism and observations on
that poem, 90, 96, 101, 106, 113, 117, 123, 132. His subject con-
formable to the talents of which he was master, 139. His fable
a master-piece, 143. A continuation of the Spectator's criticism
on that poem, and length of time contained in the action, 219.
The author's vast genius, 382. His description of the arch-
angel and the evil spirits addressing themselves for the combat,

454.

Mimickry, art of, why we delight in it, 376.

Minister, a watchful one described, 408.

Mirth distinguished from cheerfulness, 311.

Modesty, a due proportion of it requisite to an orator, 18. The
excellency of modesty, 19. Vicious modesty, what, 20. The
danger of false modesty, 446. Distinguished from the true,

447.

Monuments raised by envy, the most glorious, 295.

Monsters, novelty bestows charms on them, 359. Incapable of
propagation, 364. What gives satisfaction in the sight of them,

384.

Moorfields, by whom resorted to, 525.

Morality, the benefits of it, 450. Strengthens faith, 463.

More, Sir Thomas, his gaiety at death, to what owing, 291, 292.
Morality, the lover's will of it, 309.

Motion of the gods, wherein it differs from that of mortals accord-
ing to Heliodorus, 217.

Much cry but little wool, to whom applied, 58.

Muley Moluch, Emperor of Morocco, his great intrepidity in his
dying moments, 292.

Music, church, of the improvement of it, 344.

fused notions of things in the fancy, 376.

N.

It may raise con-

Names of authors to be put to their works, the hardships and in-
convenience of it, 430.

Nature, her works more perfect than those of art to delight the
fancy, 366. Yet the more pleasant, the more they resemble
them, 367. More grand and august than those of art, 368.
Necessary cause of our being pleased with what is great, new,
and beautiful, 362.

Nemesis, an old maid, a great discoverer of judgments, 493.
New or uncommon, why every thing that is so raises a pleasure
in the imagination, 359. What understood by the term with
respect to objects, ibid. Improves what is great and beautiful,
360. Why a secret pleasure annexed to its ideas, 363. Every
thing so that pleases in architecture, 374.

News, how the English thirst after it, 434. Project for a supply
of it, 436. Of whispers, 443.

Nicolini, his perfection in music, 344.

Nightingale, its music highly delightful to a man in love, 318.

0.

Ovid, in what he excels, 382. His description of the palace of
Fame, 407.

P.

Pamphlets defamatory, detestable, 430.

Pantheon at Rome, how it strikes the imagination at the first
entrance, 372.

Paradise Lost, Milton's, its fine images, 384.

Party not to be followed with innocence, 338.

Passions, the use of them, 65. What moves them in descriptions
most pleasing, 384. Those of hope and fear, 473.
-Persecution in religious matters immoral, 452.

Persons, imaginary, not proper for an heroic poem, 201.
Petronius and Socrates, their cheerful behaviour during their last
moments, grounded on different motives, 291.

Petticoat politicians, a seminary to be established in France, 259.
Phidias's proposal of a prodigious statue of Alexander, 372.
Philosophy, natural, the use of it, 330.

Philosophy, new, the authors of it gratify and enlarge the ima-
gination, 391.

Picture not so natural a representation as a statue, 375. What
pleases most in one, 384.

Pin-money condemned, 250.

Pity is love softened by sorrow, 332. That and terror leading
passions in poetry, 384.

Places of trust, who most fit for them, 468. Why courted by men
of generous principles, 466.

Planets, to survey them fills us with astonishment, 391.

Plutarch, for what reproved by the Spectator, 494.

Poems, epic, the chief thing to be considered in them, 91.
Poems, several preserved for their similies, 396.

Poetry has the whole circle of nature for its province, 390.
Poets, bad ones, given to detraction and envy, 61. The pains
poets should take to form the imagination, 380. Should mend

nature, and add to her beauty, 386. How much they are at
liberty in it, ibid.

Polite imagination lets into a great many pleasures the vulgar are
not capable of, 356.

Politics of St. James's coffee-house on the report of the French
king's death, 341. Of Giles's, ibid. Of Jenny Man's, ibid.
Of Will's, ibid. The Temple, 342. Fish-street, ibid. Cheap.
side, ibid.

Poll, a way of arguing, 35.

Poverty, the loss of merit, 458.

Power, despotic, an unanswerable argument against it, 239.
Praise, why not freely conferred on men till dead, 290.

Prayers, Phænix's allegorical description of them to Achilles in

Homer, 323. The folly and extravagance of our prayers in
general make set forms necessary, 327.

Precipice, distant, why its prospect pleases, 385.

Prediction, the many arts of it in use among the vulgar, 524.
Printing encouraged by the politest nations in Europe, 302.
Prospect, a beautiful one delights the soul as much as a demon.
stration, 356. Wide ones pleasing to the fancy, 357. Enliv-
ened by nothing so much as rivers and falls of water, 360.
That of hills and vallies soon tires, ibid.

Prosperity, to what compared by Seneca, 31.

Providence, not to be fathomed by reason, 31.

Prudence, the influence it has on our good or ill fortune in the
world, 245.

Psalmist against hypocrisy, 339. His representation of Provi-
dence, 417.

Puzzle, Tom, a most eminent immethodical disputant, 481.
Pyramids of Egypt, 371.

Pythagoras's precept about the choice of a course of life, 427.

Rack, a knotty syllogism, 35.

R.

Rainbow, the figure of one contributes to its magnificence, as
much as the colours to its beauty, 374.

Religion considered, 450. A morose melancholy behaviour,
which is observed in several professors of it, reproved, 509.
The true spirit of it not only composes but cheers the soul, 511.
Rich men, their defects overlooked, 458.

Riches corrupt men's morals, 459.

Richlieu, (Cardinal,) his politics made France the terror of Europe,

258.

Ridicule the talent of ungenerous tempers, 53. The two branches
of ridicule in writing, 55. When put to a good use, 421.
Riding-dress of ladies, the extravagance of it, 405.

Sallust, his excellence, 351.

S.

Sappho, dies for love of Phaon, 2. Her hymn to Venus, 3.
A fragment of hers translated into three different languages,
14, 15.

Satires, the English, ribaldry and Billingsgate, 432.

Scales, golden, a dream of them, 455.

Scandal, how monstrous it renders us, 430, &c.

Scot, Dr. his Christian life, its merit, 429.

Scotch, a saying of theirs, 456.

Scribblers against the Spectator, why neglected by him, 420, 421.
Semiramis, her prodigious works and power, 371.

Sexes, the advantages of amity to each, 398.
Shakespear excels all writers in his ghosts, 389.

Sherlock, Dr. the reason his discourse of death hath been so
much perused, 243. He has improved the notion of heaven
and hell, 429.

Shows and diversions lie properly within the province of the
Spectator, 25.

. Sickness, a thought in it, 537.

Sight, the most perfect sense, 354. The pleasures of the imagi-
nation arise originally from it, 355. Furnishes it with ideas,
ibid.

Similitudes, eminent writers faulty in them, 395.

Slavery, what kind of government the most removed from it,
235, &c.

Socrates, à catechetical method of arguing first introduced by
him, 33. Instructed in eloquence by a woman, 48. The effect
a discourse of his on marriage had with his audience, 519
Song with notes, 470, &c.

Sorites, what sort of figure, 35.

Soul, its happiness the contemplation of God, 363. State of it
after separation, 365. The excellency of it considered in rela-
tion to dreams, 497.

Sounds, how improper for description, 376.

Spectator, his aversion to pretty fellows, and the reason of it, 80.
His acknowledgments to the public, 83. His advice to the
British ladies, 90. His opinion of our form of government aid
religion, 235, &c. He is sometimes taken for a parish sexton, nd
why, 240. His reflections upon Clarinda's journal, 276. He
accompanies Sir Roger de Coverley to Westminster Abbey, 277.
His sacrifices to humanity, 293. His behaviour under reproach,
and reasons for not returning an answer to those who have ani-
madverted on his paper, 294, &c. The benefits accruing to the
public from his speculations, 300. His papers much sought for
about Christmas by all his neighbours, 302. He accompanies
Sir Roger to Spring Garden, 316. His thoughts about the
stamps on the papers, 418, &c. His paper put into the golden
scales, 457. His account of a coffee-house debate, relating to
the difference between Count Rechteren and M. Mesnager,
487, &c. The different sense of his readers upon the rise of
his paper, and the Spectator's proposal upon it, 501, &c.
Speech, the several organs of it, 18.

Spenser, his whole creation of shadowy persons, 390.

Spies, not to be trusted, 408. Despised by great men, 409.
Spirits, several species in the world besides ourselves, 388.

Spring, the pleasantest season in the year, 329.

Spring Garden, a kind of Maohmetan paradise, 318.

Stamps, how fatal to weekly historians, 418.

Starch, political, its use, 261.

Stars, fixed, how their immensity and magnificence confound us,

392.

Statuary the most natural representation, 375.

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